PHAETHONTID^E . — PELECANID/E . 
Phaethon lepturus Daud. White-tailed Tropic Bird 
*Phaethan lepturus lepturus Daud. 
Phaeton lepturus Daudin, Buff on's Hist, Nat. ed. Didot, Quadr. xiv, 
1802 , p. 319: Mauritius. 
Distr. — ? Cocos-Keeling Islands.' 
Phaethon lepturus fulvus Brandt. Christmas Island Tropic Bird. 
Phaethon fulvus Brandt, M6m. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb. (6) 5, 
1840, p. 269* No type lac. = Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. 
Phaeton flavo-aurantius Laur,, Ann. Lyc. N. York, vii, 1862, p. 142 : 
Typ. loc. unknown = Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. 
Distr . — Christmas Island, Indian Ocean; Cocos-Keeling Islands. 
Phaethon aether eus Linn. Short- tailed Tropic Bird. 
[Phaethon sthereus aethereus Linn. 
Phaethon cethereus Linn., Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 134 : Ascen- 
sion Island. 
Distr . — Extra- iimital. ] 
Phaethon aethereus indicus Hume, 
Phaeton indicus Hume, Stray Feathers, iv, 1876, p. 481 : Mekran 
Coast. 
Distr . — Straits of Malacca. 
Family PELECANID^. 
Genus PELECANUS Linn. 
Pelecanus onocrotalus Linn. 1 White Pelican. 
Pelecanus Onocrotalus Linn., Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 132 : 
Caspian Sea, Russian Asia. 
Pelecanus javanicus Horsf., Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, 1821, p. 107: Java. 
D is t r , — Malay Peninsula . 
Sumatra, 
Java, 
* There is some confusion about the forms of Phaethon found in the 
Cocos-Keeling Islands. Ogilvie-Grant (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxvi. 1898, 
p. 454) placed Nicholson’s record (Ibis r 1882, p. 70) of “ P . candidus” relating 
to a specimen obtained by Forbes in the Cocos-Keeling Islands, under 
P . Upturns, but wrongly Quoted Java as the locality. Wood-Jones (P.Z.S. 
1909, p, 141) however, records the Cocos breeding bird as rubricauda, but 
judging from a photograph giyen to me by Mr, C. Ciunies Ross, the former 
author's view seems correct. 
3 In our treatment of the pelicans we have followed Messrs. C. H. B. 
Grant and C. W. Mackworth-Praed, 1934. 
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